Tag: Casino

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Can you identify what is being counted here?

Movie Count
The Wolf of Wall Street 569
Casino 442
Straight Outta Compton 392
Goodfellas 300
The Big Lebowski 281
Pulp Fiction 265
Deadpool & Wolverine 116

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Number of times 'fuck' has been said in a movie.
Apparently the only time the word was said before this in the entire MCU was once in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Here are movies with more Swear Words.

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The name of what casino, famous in its own right, took on another use in work by mathematicians John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1940s?

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The Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco lent its name to Monte Carlo methods, a type of computational algorithm that enables mathematicians to counter-intuitively use randomness to solve problems that do not involve any randomness. Ulam and von Neumann's work on these algorithms was classified at the time and required a codename, so they used the Monte Carlo, where Ulam's uncle was an avid gambler.